The first week of my inter

The first day of my internship, I exited and was

scary at the same time like going to the unknown, I
had no clue what to expect. And my mind starts to
think of an idea of what it might be like but as
far as experience. And my head was thinking and
asking the many questions did those people going to
welcome me and help them or me going to leave me
hanging in there. After I arrived at my internship
site, the first person I meet was Matt news
director, after I settle down and get all the
paperwork done and access code for the door, he
introduces me to people on the stations section by
section starting by the editing room, salespeople,
master control room and finally take to studio
room. Honestly, I find everyone was helpful and
friendly, and that makes me feel a little bit calm.
On this week I was capable of learning the daily
operations of a newsroom, understood the director
and the associate producers' work and learned the
lottery graphics create every Tuesday and Thursday
is and sport and bumping after each block. It was
an enjoyable learning experience for me.
I applied the knowledge of the learning that I
taught at Salisbury University, which shapes up my
arrangement and advances myself, to get additional.
All through this intern, I need to advantage a few
comprehensions about communications, media
production, and broadcasting news. I watch impacts
that I enthusiasm for this field and capacities
that I will convey with coming changes and me to
up. Also, it helped me ultimately perceived what I
need to do in communications as an occupation. This
internship will comprehensively explain what I add
as far as anyone is concerned through this entry-
level position and how it reflects me in my desire
to achieve my occupation objectives.
I find out the station gets a lot of story tips
through the phone from people. There always-new
story happening. It goes through different people
to be approved then the reporter and the
photographer will go out to cover it, When the
story is researched, interviewed, and filmed, it
sends to the studio to be edit and create a final
script, the last step to send it over to the studio
to be on the show.
The producer the one how approving stories
scripts be for air it and anything else that is
required before the show goes live. The producer
attends during the live show. To keep up with the
time, and decides whether to skip stories or not,
giving the time for the floor director to hand cue
the Meteorology for the end of the show. The basic
cue is one minute, 30 seconds, 15-second and wrap.
I used to get confused about the concept of
floating the story that means the story is not
going to apply for this block or some times it can
use in because of the updating news. I was able to
manage floating the story, learned how to know
which story is next and which camera and a shot are
going to be next to cue the anchor.
Producer is always updating the anchors with new
information and makes sure that the show is working
successfully. Then after the show, everyone gathers
on the studio crews, and anchors to talk about what
mistakes happened during the show, and what need to
be done to improve the show.
I realize after my third week the Studio Director
had different roles and tasks to complete his job
before going live on the show. Every time I saw the
director working on multiple things like editing
the run down by a sign in the story and the camera
shot to anchor or creating lottery graphic, sports
graphics, weather graphic, or checking the
Sound for Pkg and SOT or tracking the NXT bottom on
the audio board for the out side reporter before
going live on the show to make sure the shot and
the sound is fine, They always busy doing some
stuff.
 During my internship with WMDT 47 ABC Station, I
was able to experience A few different positions. I
gained experience as a prompter, floor director,
Controlling the audio board, assisting the director
with finalizing the show. I managed the settings
during the pre-recording and post-recording phases.
I was editing the sound for a show as well as
managing the communication between the floor and
studio room. Until this internship, I had not
realized how prevalent connection between each
functional area. Without effective communication
both on and off the air, chaos could quickly
consume production both behind the scenes as well
as within the show. Before I arrived at my
internship, I believed that the employees just
worked on their pieces of production. Everyone
looked very busy and rushing around getting things
done, working on TV. I have learned this is a fast-
paced environment. What I experienced was very
different. Everyone understands that all parts must
keep up with the fast pace; they must assist each
other to make sure the show is successful. One
individual cant is off, or the entire show is off.
Though everyone does work quickly and focuses on
their parts of the Process, everyone treats each
other respectfully and works as a team to get the
job done. Everyone treats each other like family.
They even shared that same kindness with the
interns, and it made me feel as if I had been
working there for years, though it was only a short
period of time Though there are many obstacles that
I overcame and things that I am proud of from this
internship, there are things that I am disappointed
in as well. I wish if I could have done more.
One area I wish I had been able to experience,
would have been directing a show or working with a
reporter to film outside of the studio. I would
have also liked to learn how to lay down the
footage and convert it into anew clips. I was not
able to experience that, and that is one thing that
I wanted to do. This field of work is fascinating
to me. The fast-paced variety of work can be
exciting and unpredictable. I am very thankful for
the opportunity to learn from my mentors. I
appreciated learning from the associates of WMDT 47
ABC station. They made me feel like part of the
family. I will continue to learn and use the
experiences and skills I have obtained in my
internship for future endeavors.
Working as a studio technician is fun, but the
most challenging part I found is working on the
audio board. It has many buttons, switches, and a
lot of multi- Tasking. It's way more difficult at
the beginning. You had to pay very carefully to
audio levels, and the very important lesson John
repeated to my many time muting the microphones
when the playing the (PKG/SOT) for the voice over,
and unmuting when the anchor is back on the screen
to do that I have to keep up with rundown, My
second struggling on the audio board when the
people talk on the newsroom some time I can't hear
the director order I just used my sense to unmute
the microphone.
Managing the audio board overall is not hard; each
anchor has color in his Microphone. For example,
the news anchor has a red and green microphone. The
sports anchor has a blue microphone. And the
meteorologist has a yellow microphone other have
gust microphone with pink color. I apply the color
the each anchor and that make it easy form me to
handle it. Also I manage the Facebook Live.
The other challenging working as the prompter is
not hard but need to be focusing and awake to keep
up the flow, sometimes I need to Paced the prompter
fast and sometimes slowly during the live show to
meet the anchor speed talking.
Sport is the hardest block because of the anchor
talks a lot, skips ahead of the script. On Friday
on 11 pm the whole show is sport except for one
black, they having a show called (DSI) Delmarva
Sports Insider, They throw me off and make me
nervous, wondering if the anchor going to read from
where he stops or he going to read the next story.
I had to focus very carefully to make sure I
matched with his talking.
What surprises me many times reporters have to go
out in storms or national disasters where they can
get hurt? They risk their lives to get news for the
world. And sometimes they have to work late, but
still, they have to come to work the next day and
possibly do it all over again.
Doing my internship with DMDT 47. I was able to
look at things clearly from many different
perspectives. I gained a lot of experience in the
media production field. Working in a very dynamic
industry like media production helped me a lot in
understanding how media and technology ride
together as they rely on each other in many
different ways. I enjoyed working under the news
department supervision. Actions and News never
stop, dealing with News that came from many sources
and trying to create the best frame that can hold
the story and make it acceptable and understandable
to the audience without making any changes on the
News was an exciting part in my internship.
The coming News should follow a very restrict
process before publishing. For example, filtering
the News and making sure the stories are correct
and hold truth by verifying the source, and then
delivering the stories to the studio filmed stories
and making sure they are in the best format. As I
said earlier the News the industry is a very
dynamic field, and in many times things change
quickly without any prior notification, and we had
to deal with it, by dealing with these situations I
gained a lot of experience and learned how to act
promptly and make quick reactions in no time.
One of the things that I gained during my time with
DMDT 47 is building solid relationships with Co-
workers, and by sharing my thoughts and ideas; I
was willing to maintain a vast social network. That
helped me to learn and adapt quickly to the work
Environment.
Honestly, when I started my internship with DMDT
47, I was wondering how I can make myself
comfortable and how I can provide the most during
work. I was much stressed the first time I joined
the team, but after a while, I was willing to make
myself comfortable and adopt the new environment.
My team was accommodating as they provided me so
much knowledge that helped me meet the requirements
for the different tasks.
This internship helped me understand the News and
the Media Production industry in many different
ways; I had the chance to improve my communication
skills, people skills, and time management skills.